- INEC Releases Full Voters Registers in Few Days
By Abiola Olawale
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that it has been able to register new voters for the upcoming Edo and Ondo State Governorship elections to the staggering number of 177,914.
In a statement issued by the National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun on Monday, the electoral body revealed that it has a total of 119,206 new voters in Edo State while Ondo State has 58,708.
Olumekun, in the statement also stated that the figures exclude the 8,847 applications for voter transfers into Edo State and 3,132 into Ondo State from other parts of the country.
In addition to these new registrations, applications for transfers within Edo and Ondo States have already been integrated into the voters register.
The statement reads in part: “Nigerians may recall that in our Press Statement on Tuesday 11th June 2024, we released the preliminary figures of newly registered voters for the forthcoming Edo and Ondo State Governorship elections before the period for claims and objections, followed by the cleaning up of the data using the Automated Biometric Identification System. These processes have now been concluded.
“The number of new voters for Edo State is 119,206 and 58,708 for Ondo State.
“These figures do not include the 8,847 applications for transfer into Edo State and the 3,132 into Ondo State from other States of the Federation.
“Similarly, they do not include applications for transfer within the two States because they are already captured on the register of voters.
“The figures of the new voters and inter-state transfers are being integrated into the existing register,” the statement read in part.
He added that the INEC will release the comprehensive and final register of voters for both states in the coming days.
“In the next few days, the Commission will release the comprehensive and final register of voters to be used for the 2024 Governorship elections for each of the two States,” he noted.
The New Diplomat reports that the Edo election is slated to take place on September 21, 2024 while that of Ondo will be held on November 16, 2024, respectively.
